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Sonntag, 22. Januar 2017

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo - Review

Six of
Crows

Six of
Crows Duology 1

Leigh
Bardugo

500 pages, paperback

Indigo

Plot

Gangs rule
in the Barrel, in Ketterdam. Gangs like the Dregs. For the right price you can
trade everything there, and you find someone for any job. Someone like Kaz
„Dirtyhands“ Brekker. A young criminal prodigy. He has been promised a fortune,
if he breaks into the Icecourt and frees a prisoner.

For this
incredible task he needs powerful friends to join him. Friends like Inej,
Jesper, Wylan, Nina and Matthias.

But will
they manage to do their job against all odds and with their own dark secrets
turning against them?

My thoughts
and feelings – spoiler free

It took me
a long time until I got to page 200 or so. I just did not have the time to
really get into the story, but then I just flew through it.

Kaz Brekker
is a wonderful character and so are all the others. The moment they left
Ketterdam to head to the Icecourt the story became incredibly intense.

But not
only their adventure was fast paced, you also got to read about the characters
backstories and they were heart breaking.

The
characters are all between the ages 16 to 18, but honestly I imagined them all
as at least 18. But that is my only problem with this novel.

I read the
Grisha trilogy last summer and it was good, but for me it did not live up to
its hype. I didn’t really connect with Alina and Mal (I loved Nikolaj though)
and the world building didn’t feel finished to me. But Six of Crows, which
takes place in the same world as the Grisha trilogy, really made me love this
world and I consider rereading the Grisha trilogy.

To sum my
feelings up, I loved this book, every little aspect of it.

I have been
in a huge book hangover since I finished Six of Crows last weekend.

You don’t
have to read the Grisha trilogy to read Six of Crows and I really recommend
picking Six of Crows up. It was amazing. I gave it full 5 out of 5 stars.

My spoilery
thoughts

I am sorry
these are not in chronological order; I did not take notes while reading.

I could not
believe how incredibly genius Kaz is. Everytime I thought they would get caught
Kaz had already planned this to happen. How. Can. Someone. Be. So. Genius.

I loved
it.And I especially loved how Kaz let
his guard down in front of Inej. Their friendship and potential romance was so
good, even though Inej is one of my least favourite of our Six main characters.
Don’t get me wrong, I still really love her, but the others are just even more
amazing. I didn’t really like the religious aspect she brought into this story
I myself am not religious. But I am okay with it of course it just made it a
bit harder for me to connect to her.

For a long
time we were only able to guess what had made Kaz as he is now, but then we
learned about his backstory and I was shocked. How he came to Ketterdam with
his brother Jordie and how they were tricked an lost all their money to Pekka
Rollins was already so sad, but then they both got ill with this fever and
Jordie didn’t survive it.

The scene
where Kaz digs his way out of all these bodies was just insane.

Afterwards
we knew why Kaz always wears gloves. He just can’t bear to touch human flesh
anymore. Not after he woke up buried under hundreds of dead people.

(This
review is going to be 99% about Kaz Brekker. And I am not sorry J )

Kaz isn’t a
secretly good person, he really is really dark, the Barrel made him dark and
not even Inej was able to change that. And to be honest, I loved that!

I knew at
the end, that there would be a problem. And I was right, Van Eck, Wylan’s
father just wanted the jurda parem for himself and he kidnaps Inej. Kaz lets
him go to protect Inej and he basically starts a war against the whole world to
get Inej back.

I can’t
wait to see what happens in Crooked Kingdom to them.

I don’t
have too much to say about Jesper and Wylan. We just don’t know too much about
them. Jesper is a gambler and he betrayed his crew in order to protect his
family, which was really heart breaking. He also straight up started to flirt
with Wyland and it was hilarious to read about.

Wylan on
the other hand is kind of mysterious for the most part of the book. He is the
only one of our main characters, who has not his own POV chapters so we don’t
really know what he is up to. Him being the son of Van Eck I was very suspicious
of him all the time. But there was no need for that. We find out, that he
besides being really good at maths and chemistry cannot read and that his
father pushed him away because of that.

I even
tried to sacrifice his son in order to get his hands on jurda parem. What an
asshole! The last few chapters really made me fall for Wylan.

O and I
almost forgot but we found out, that Jesper is a fabrikator.Cool.

So that
leaves us with Matthias and Nina.

We get to
know Nina when Kaz asks her to join his team and later our crew breaks into
Hellgate to free Matthias. Matthias is Fjerdan, he is a drüskelle, a hunter for
Grishas and he has been in the Icecourt before.

Nina and
Matthias already knew each other before our story started but when Matthias
sees Nina in Hellgate he immediately tries to kill her. We later find out that
Matthias and his drüskelle friend captured Nina (Nina is a heartrender and used
to be in ravnka’s second army). But when they were on a ship on their way to
Fjerda the ship sunk and Matthias and Nina were only able to survive because
they worked together. In the following weeks they got really close but Nina
eventually accused Matthias for slavery in order to protect other Grishas. So
Matthias was brought to Ketterdam as a prisoner.

He developed
a hatred for Nina in his time in Hellgate but eventually they forgive eachother
and Matthias realises that Grishas are not the monsters he was made to believe
they were.

Matthias
and Nina’s friendship was really intense, their love and their hatred were so
strong. And I loved the fact, that Matthias stayed faithful to Kaz’ crew.

But the
best part about Nina and Matthias’s story was the section that was told from
the past, when they tried to survive together.

I can’t
wait to get to Crooked Kingdom but on the other hand I don’t want this story to
end. The struggle is real.